How to find Real Love !
How to find Real Love !
Saroj Kumar Apat , Missionary , AP
“ The world is at your fingertips .” It ' s an expression you ' ve heard many times that recently has taken on a more literal meaning . According to statistics mobile apps downloads exceeded 269 billion this year . But the thing that we can never get by pressing a key even in the Android market is , ' Real Love '.
To be genuine and lasting , love must be based on a more enduring foundation than mere physical attraction or fleshly gratification . It must include an unselfish desire to protect and help and make someone else happy . It must also involve admiration for the other person ' s finer qualities . A person can be in love with their partner ' s mind , spirit and sentiments all of which have little or nothing to do with physical beauty . Real love is a spiritual thing : it ' s not merely physical . It ' s mostly manifested in mental companionship and compatibility , the likes and dislikes and habits that the two people have in common . “ Love is sometimes seeking the liveliness of the spirit , the fascination of the mind , the irresistibility of the heart and the magnanimity of the soul .”
True happiness comes not in your personal pursuit of selfish pleasure and satisfaction , but in finding God and giving His love and life to others , and bringing them happiness . Then happiness will pursue and overtake and overwhelm you , personally , without you even seeking it for yourself . God didn ' t say we wouldn ' t or shouldn ' t need or desire or enjoy the things of this life , but He admonishes us not to have an inordinate love for them to the point that we put these things before the even greater needs of our spirit .
That ' s the secret : Look for someone to make
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them happy , and that happiness will find you ! “ He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully .” Those are God ' s laws of the spirit and are just as definite as the laws of physics , such as the law of gravity . The law of love is unselfish love for God and others . If you will obey that law and give the love that is God ' s and others ' due , you will also receive love . “ For with the same measure that you use , it will be measured back to you .”
Life , liberty , and the giving of happiness to others - these are things that only God can give and the only things that will ever satisfy your spirit . So if you want to be happy and make someone else truly happy , seek the satisfaction of the spirit that can be found only in God and His love !
GOD CREATED US with the need to love and be loved . He alone can satisfy the deepest yearning of every human soul for the total love and complete understanding . The things of this earth can satisfy the body , but only God and His eternal love can ever fill that aching spiritual void in our hearts that He created for Himself . The human spirit can never be completely satisfied with anything less than utter union with the great and loving Spirit who created it .
“ God is love .” He is the very Spirit of love , true love , everlasting love , real love , genuine love that never ends from a lover who never leaves , the Lover of all lovers . He is pictured in His son , Jesus , who came out of love and lived in love and died for love that we might love and love forever . “ But anyone who does not love does not know God for God is love ” ( 1John 4:8 ).
“ This is real love . It is not that we loved God , but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins ” ( 1 John 4:9 ). His love for you is unconditional . No matter how weak or disheartened you may feel right now , or how disappointed you
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